Workshops
Feb 6 2021
Internet Choreographies: Performing for the Online Audience
Learn to creatively navigate the unique constraints and characteristics of performing for screen-based platforms.
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Feb 21 2021 to Mar 7 2021
Mapping Mutual Aid
Lucas LaRochelle leads a collaborative workshop & lab on the GIS and counter-mapping strategies used in their Queering the Map project.
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Mar 6 2021 to Mar 13 2021
Accessible UX/UI Design for Artists
Learn about the user's journey through visual, non-visual, and multisensory interfaces with UX/UI designer Soren Hamby!
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Mar 20 2021
Expanding on the Real: Experiments in Adobe After Effects
Artist Max Lester leads a workshop on how to retool Adobe After Effects for experiments with abstraction and digital assemblage.
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Apr 10 2021
The Great Indoors: an online soundscapes workshop
(Re)discover the acoustic possibilities of indoor spaces and co-create sonic spaces of care, empathy, collaboration with Johann Diedrick.
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Apr 20 2021 to Apr 27 2021
Coding Bots for Community
Learn about bot-coding basics from command line setup to deployment while discussing how bots can help create safer online chat communities.
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Nov 24, 2019
DIY Eurorack ADSR
Build your own Eurorack Envelope Generator at the Toronto Sound Festival. Join us to practice your soldering and circuit building skills, and add a new unit into your rack!
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Nov 23 - 30, 2019
Drawing Out Urban Interfaces — Experimental Reading Group
Technology transforms how people live, as well as their attitudes, instincts, personas, and psyches, all of which comprise human subjectivity. This experimental workshop lead by Simon Rabyniuk will bring together artists, designers, and technologists to read, discuss and explore present-day issues related to technology and the city.
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Nov 16, 2019
Making Things With Light
SOLD OUT -- Let’s take a look at how light behaves, and explore different sources of light that can be used in artworks. Rob Cruickshank will contemplate the physics of light. Is it a wave? A particle? Or both? What is the difference between reflection and refraction? What is colour, and how do we see it?
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Nov 2, 2019
Basic Electronics, the Body and Squishy Futures
Lee Wilkins will teach you how to build basic circuits and switches. This exploratory workshop serves as a departure point for considering how cybernetics, materials, and the future of electronics will unfold.
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Oct 26, 2019
Virtual Brush Strokes
Dive into virtual and augmented reality and learn to draw in 3D space using Tilt Brush with multimedia artist Casey Koyczan. Presented as part of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
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Oct 19, 2019
Drawing with Code using p5.js
Join us for an introduction to generative art and the fundamentals of p5.js, a programming language developed for artists to simplify drawing with code, with instructor Adam Herst.
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Oct 12, 2019
Staining for Microscopy
Join us for an in-depth workshop with visual artist and scientist Raddah Chaddah on how to mount stains and natural dyes made from saffron, beets, and blue-green algae, and prepare them for photography using the InterAccess microscopes.
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Oct 1 - 3, 2019
Live Vjing with Resolume
Discover infinite possibilities of Resolume Arena with Ilze Briede [Kavi] and learn how to run your own live visual show using the software, projectors, sound, and midi devices. The workshop will finish with an opportunity to showcase your work at a live music venue.
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Sep 21 - 22, 2019
Art Writing & Criticism in the Digital Age
SOLD OUT -- In this two-day workshop, Sky Goodden will discuss the tools and strategies required to navigate the publishing field successfully, and will focus on the professional and practical realities of working in art writing, journalism, and criticism. Presented in collaboration with Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC).